Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-13
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THE Baltimore & Ohio telegraph oper-
ators in New York struck recently against
an order for Sunday work for women. The
matter was settled by the withdrawal of
the order.
EFRoN & SCHRAM, dealers in cotton, wool
and hides, 106 Cliff street, New York, have
suspended. The firm also did business as
/. Enron & Co., at Sen Antonio, Ell Paso
and Laredo, Tex, and Saltillo, Mexico.
The case OF the Chemical Bank of New
York against William Kissane Rogers in
, the United States Court at San Francisco
has been practically ruled out under the
statute OF limitations.
FOUR new cases of cholera developed on
the Sd at the New York City quarantine.
Fourteen cases were under treatment.
REV. DR., JOSEPH PARKER delivered his
eulogy on Henry Ward Beecher at the
Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N. Y, on the
evening of the 4th.
In the New Hampshire House resolutions
were adopted for the appointment of com
mittee to investigate attempts to bride
members for the passage of the Hazen bill.
OVER 5000 Grand Army veterans of West
ern Pennsylvania paraded in Pittsburgh
the other afternoon.
Four more deaths from cholera were re-
ported from the New York quarantine On
the 4th.
THE annual meeting of the New York
Clearing House Association was held re-
Gently. The report presented showed total
transactions during the past year of $780,
42,475, ITO. There were sixty-five members
of the association with q total capital and
surplus Of S1G7, 276, 100.
DANIEL MANNING, ex-Secretary of the
Treasury, is reported again Frustrated with
sickness.
Miss JOSEPHINE MILLER, handsome
amateur actress and public reader of Bos-
ton. has been arrested on the charge of
stealing property from the house of Rev
Julian Smith which she had rented.
THE district attorney of Philadelphia has
decided that pool selling is gambling and
has recommended that all pool rooms be
closed by the police.
The new telephone probe has been sue
cessfully used in Bellevue Hospital, New
York, to locate bullet in a mans body
REV. T. &. BECKER has accepted the
nomination of the New York Greenb>ck
party for Secretary of State.
SIR 7. III. GRAFTON EsMoNDE and Arthur
O'Connor addressed large audience at
Cooper Union, New York, on the 5th in be-
half OF the Irish Parnell party.
Ex-GovERNoR WAsBBURNE died suddenly
during a meeting of the American Board
of Missions at Springfield, Mass. recently
HowE's distillery, New York, burned re-
Gently. Loss, S175,000.
THE New Y ork Chamber of Commerce has
resolved: ssThat business men of all parties
should unite in demanding speedy action by
Congress looking to such reduction of our
revenues as will make the income of the
Government conform nearly as practicable
to the necessary expenditures of the Ma
tion.''
AMONG the passengers from Liverpool by
the steamer City of Rome, which arrived at
New York on the 9th, were Hon j. j.
O'Neill, Representative in Congress, of St
Louis, and Governor Aarmaduke, of Mis-
souri,.
ARTHUR H SMELL, acting paying teller of
the Fulton Bank, of Brooklyn, n. Y, has
been arrested for $1,000 shortage in his
accounts.
THE WEST.
The bank at Bell evue, o., suspended re-
Gently on account Of poor investments and
bad management Depositors will lose
nothing.
Hoe cholera is creating great havoc
among the swine about Wabash, Ind, the
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